At a critical moment for women’s rights and equal opportunities, the American Supreme Court has agreed to weigh one of the most debate issues of the day: should men be allowed to join women’s sports teams?
That is a question that we, as female athletes, have asked the Supreme Court of the Nation to tackle. Fortunately, the court said on Thursday that it would do.
Much has been said about this problem. We have all seen the photos, watched the videos, heard the stories. In fact, it was common for political candidates to ran in competitive varieties during the last elections that their opponents rightly charged to remove opportunities for girls. And President Donald Trump has made it clear that he is also with female athletes.
Lainey ArmisteAd wondered if she would be confronted with male competitors when she stepped on the field as the captain of the football team of West Virginia State University. (Alliance defends freedom)
I, Madison, have first -hand experience with this injustice. I walked a job and cross -country skiing at Idaho State University and am very familiar with the differences in strength, speed and endurance between similarly gifted and trained male and female athletes. I was forced to compete against a male athlete and was pushed into the ranking.
Common Sense says that women’s sports are only for women
As men who participated in the sport of women throughout the country became widespread, I, Lainey, wondered if I would be confronted with a male competitor when I got up as a team captain of the football team of the West Virginia State University.
I recently spoke with the United Nations in addition to four UN Member States and Reem Alsalem, the special UN reporter on violence against women and girls, at an event that ADF International coordinated to emphasize the groundbreaking new report of Alsalem about “Violence against women and girls in Sport”.
The report is presented to the general meeting and describes the enormous costs incurred by female athletes, both for basic buttocks and their safety, when men can penetrate their sport and related spaces. According to that report, male athletes have taken more than 890 medals from more than 600 female athletes in 29 sports.
Mary Kate Marshall, Left, and Madison Kenyon at Idaho State University
Title IX was meant to protect women, not to delete us
This is so discouraging, not only for us, but for the next generation of little girls with large dreams. How do we inspire them? By only creating female athletic spaces and won real merit. We should never give a young girl lessons in unfair loss – teach her that all those early mornings of hard works are disconnected from the result.
It is impossible to ignore the consequences for female athletes when men are allowed in their sports and private spaces, such as toilets and changing rooms. Sport is one of the most obvious physical representations of the differences between the sexes.
But that won’t do it just Be over a larger, stronger, faster male athlete that dominates a job or swimming event or threatens the privacy and safety of a girl by gaining access to the changing rooms or toilets of girls. It is also about protecting basic, fundamental rights of women – and men. And acknowledge that our laws, policy and culture must reflect the biological reality and our inherent differences.
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If we admit that boys can be girls, and vice versa, we not only throw out common sense, science and biological reality, but also the truth itself. For too long, lies are steeped in public policy, political agendas and the administrative bodies of sport, and as a result, women suffer.
As more male athletes begin to dominate the sport of women, authorities use shame and manipulation to remain silent. But some brave women are willing to speak.
The truth is powerful and courage is contagious. More and more women are not just leaning back. Not long ago, four state universities even forfeited matches against San Jose State University because it allowed a male athlete in the ladies team, which endangered the safety and protection of the female players.
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And states also take a position. West -Virginia attorney -general JB McCuskey and Idaho attorney -general Raul Labrador, together with lawyers from Alliance Defending Freedom, defend the laws that protect the women’s sports in our home states of Idaho and West Virginia. Twenty -five other states have similar laws. That is what encouraged us to speak out in the first place: to defend the laws of our states.
Now we have the incredible opportunity to make our case for the Supreme Court of the Nation. And if we do that, we will encourage the voices of all women, including the young girls with stars in their eyes, and to protect the future from the sports that we love so much.
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Madison Kenyon is a former athlete at Idaho State University who intervened to defend the honesty of Idaho for women in the sports act challenged in Little v. Hecox.
